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by Courier Readers © PA Sir, – On March 11 2021, it will be one year since the World Health Organisation declared Covid-19 a pandemic. In one year, millions of people from all corners of the Earth have died from this disease. In this same year, science has developed effective vaccines to fight Covid-19. But the vaccines have not reached all corners of the globe, and are not likely to do so soon. Billions of public money, was given to the manufacturers to enable the development of these vaccines. But they now insist that they keep the intellectual property rights, the patents and the ...

Economies will adjust and grow Sir, – In spite of the various crises it has gone through during the past 150 years – such as the two world wars and the Great Depression – the UK economy has shown an average annual growth of 1.8%. We grow richer because human ingenuity produces innovations which raise productivity and enable us to buy things more cheaply. The recent financial crisis and pandemic are the periodic shocks we should expect. The financial crisis provided a shake-up of capital and resources; the pandemic accelerated trends already evident such as online sales and those working...

by Courier Readers © PA Sir, – My small business employs nine staff who can see how wonderful an oven ready Brexit deal this truly is. Before Brexit when sending goods to the EU it took less than a minute to copy and paste a customer’s address, phone number and email into our shipper software. Now it takes 12 mins as we have to supply EORI numbers, commodity codes, the product number, the brand, the colour, a description, the individual weight and cost. If we are sending two parcels to the same customer this now takes 24 mins as you have to do all of the above for each parcel.